Rethinking care through social reproduction: Articulating circuits of migration

Social Politics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 142-162

  Kofman, Eleonore ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; FEMINISM; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY; HOME CARE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; WORK;

CAREGIVERS; FEMINISM; GOVERNMENT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HOME CARE SERVICES; INTERNATIONALITY; PUBLIC POLICY; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; WORK;

EID: 84858169958     PISSN: 10724745     EISSN: 14682893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxr030     Document Type: Article

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